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re: 326,000 watching Big Bang repeat and is that a record – no. Australian Grand Prix on One had 367,000 (and note that is only the One audience, not Ten as well), so that’s at least one secondary channel show that had a bigger audience. Don’t know if that’s the all-time record though, but whatever the record is, it’s bigger than 326,000.

What a night for ABC coming in at 2nd! Knocking both Nine and Ten off and not far from Seven either. 5 of the top 10 shows, good on em. Horrible night for Ten though, not even a fifth of the daily share even with the AFL matches, Eeek!

——I then decided to put it through a spelling and grammar check and guess what, it was OK. Lol——-

Um, to clears things a little and if you want to be very pedantic. The use of the word ‘just’ is incorrect. Something can’t be “just’ crap. It is either crap or it isn’t crap. You can’t be “very” pregnant, you are either pregnant or you are not. It is badly written, if you really want to be anal.

Interesting result for NRL v AFL on Friday night. Would be great to see a comparison of the two codes on a weekly YTD basis including the various timeslots, free v pay ratings, timeshift numbers etc.

On that note – is there a decent guide to the methodology currently employed to determine these numbers? And has work been done to compare the ratings numbers (generated from samples) to random surveys of the proverbial ‘man on the street’ about what she/he actually watched? Be interesting too see the variances

at first I agreed with your comments that the “Your comparison to a novel is just crap” post was “atrociously written English” I then decided to put it through a spelling and grammar check and guess what, it was OK. Lol. You have to be kidding, right. Is that all you can respond with?

Nothing 7 does will make TAR rate well, last year it was tried at 7:30, failed. 8:30, failed, had some luck at 9:30 but hardly anything to celebrate. for a show that goes from 10:00-midnight 550k is not too bad. but at the end of the day it’s pretty much late night detritus. The probalem is show’s format and the difference between US and Aus viewers that is letting it down. 16 seasons and barely anyhting has changed. an Australian reality show would never get away with that. viewers get fidgety if 2 consecutive seasons of a reality show go by without a host change/judge change/rules change/’couples’ season/ celebrity season/ ect. American tv seems to be able to get lots of formats to stretch a long way unlike Australia who seem to get bored easily.

I reckon Seven should rest TAR and bring it back in a few years like Nine did with Survivor. Obviously Australia is tired of the show and its gotten repetitive. Probably a good thing CBS axed the 2 cycles of the show every season, and have now drawn it back to one.

Its just not good business sense to keep it there. They’ve tried every timeslot, Tuesdays last year, and across Thursdays from 7.30, 8.30 and 9.30 the past few years. Bottom line is audiences aren’t watching, and a paltry 530k in a primetime slot is simply not good. I understand the fans feel the show hasn’t been treated well but they’re in the minority. The show will probably get aired til its finale though as it only has a few weeks to go. I’m thinking they’ll bring back HIMYM to fill the void

David, did a certain channel 10 reporter wear a white shirt with channel 10 on one side and god forbid weetbix written on the other in tonights news? And if I am correct in what I saw, what are your thoughts on that?

@ Goonies – I don’t know what rock you’ve been living under, but unseen episodes of Big Bang Theory have never been shown on GO. If you don’t fancy episodes you’ve seen 3 times already, then I would suggest Voyage To The Planets.

I love the Amazing Race but I have no choice but to record it – finishing at 11:45pm is too late, that is why the figures are not great. Why not move it to 8:30pm? Glee and Sea Patrol are going to beat whatever 7 shows anyway. Watching a repeat of Criminal Minds from about 2 years ago – what is the point? The thing that really annoyed me is The Amazing Race didn’t start until 9:45pm in Sydney – and of course 7 thought it was very important to repeat a performace from thier talent show for 5 minutes. Not good enough 7!

Dave, while I don’t have particularly stong feelings on Lost either way, you are misrepreenting what the writer (Damon Lindelof) said. His exact quote was ” So, you’re feeling of saying goodbye to the show – of the show not being around anymore – was actually literally perfectly paralleling what we were showing you on the screen. If you had an experience anything like that, then it was mission accomplished. If you didn’t, we blew it and I apologize.”

Everytime there is talk of a show doing poorly, it comes back the next week and does a lot better. I’m referring to BH&G when I say this because everyone (including me) was suggesting for it to move to Thursdays, then it gets almost 1.1 mil last night, what’s up with that?? Was is that Chelsea Garden Show special?

@dave……LOL, LOL, LOL. You crack me up. I watched every episode yet I am not crying because all the answers weren’t there at the end. Its a mystery so let everyone visualise their own interpretation. Your comparison to a novel is just crap. It was never meant to answer Everything. Just get over it.

I enjoyed the Lost finale, but like the show itself, it was bound to be polarising. It comes back to whether you’re a man of science or a man of faith…if you watched for the characters and their journeys, you were probably satisfied. If you really wanted to know who build the 4-toed statue and what Walt’s powers meant, you were left wanting more. For me ,not knowing the answers to the ‘mysteries’ the show brought up doesn’t wreck it in the least, I still found the finale a great shout out to the best moments of the series, and a good reminder of why we watched the show in the first place: the characters and their stories. But neither side of the fence is the ‘idiot camp’, its simply television.